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These Russian or Soviet submarines either suffered extensive crew casualties or were entirely lost to enemy action or to "storm or perils of the sea." A dagger (†) indicates that the boat was lost. A dagger (†) indicates that the boat was lost.
Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment) [1] was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer.
Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or by scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three submarines were lost with all hands: the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian Navy (118 lives lost).
The Soviet Union lost contact with one of its ballistic missile submarines, the K-129, and its 98 crew members in March 1968 while it was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.The cause of the ...
A nuclear close call is an incident that might have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation or explosion, but did not. These incidents typically involve a perceived imminent threat to a nuclear-armed country which could lead to retaliatory strikes against the perceived aggressor.
The decommissioning of Russian nuclear-powered vessels is an issue of major concern to the United States and to Scandinavian countries [1] near Russia.From 1950 to 2003, the Soviet Union and its major successor state, Russia, constructed the largest nuclear-powered navy in the world, [2] with more ships than all other navies combined: [3] 248 submarines (91 attack submarines, 62 cruise missile ...
The official Russian government news agency Tass reported Wednesday that the Kazan, a modern nuclear submarine, is capable of “quietly approaching U.S. shores within 50 km and carrying out ...
The accident is the country's worst since the controversial 12 August 2000, sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Mikhail Barabanov, editor-in-chief of Moscow Defense Brief , said the potential for accidental discharge of the fire-suppression system on Russian submarines is not unheard of, but this type of incident does not normally ...